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Report 1477
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THE PITCH HILL PICTURE : A PALATABLE PRE-PRANDIAL CAR PARK PARADE
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The GM was late.
This exceptional event gave Bonn Bugle a chance to call a pre-run circle, though it is not clear why, except to welcome the rich variety of visitors, who included her own children as well as an astonishingly fast hasher who quite the Cunning Linguist . She could of course have used the opportunity to thank TO and Chunderous for the play we read on Thursday - eat your hearts out, those who were not there! Yes, we read the whole play, without cuts; yes, the "actors" were admirable, especially Hermia and the 2 Helenas; yes, we had good food and plenty to drink; and yes you would do well to come next time!
Velcro has explained some of what went wrong last Sunday, namely several hashers who believed our Uncle Gerry when he said "The trail could not possibly go up there". This sort of thing should by now be unthinkable - which of us is still so gullible as to believe him? - but, as has been remarked, there is one born every minute... Have you heard of the unpopularity of the name Gurney with Luton Town supporters? We may need to use their slogans here.
Well, things went right today. The cognoscenti were able to recognise two styles in the trail; the later stretches had much harder checks, and flour blobs much more widely spaced. Country Bumpkin confirmed that he and the gentle, tender-hearted Tako Belle set the first part together whereas he set the remainder alone. As a result of course, even though there was a short cut shown, we ended up well spread out (50 minutes from the arrival of the front runners to the close of the circle) but what with the warm weather and the landscapes and the territory and the interest of the checks, there were no querulous voices to be heard.
Not to mention the rice wine. A special feature of this trail was our running from car park to car park to car park... with Japanese delicacies in each.
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Who could be so churlish as to complain?
The trail was a right hander which took in the customary aspects of the area; we went as usual through the Duke of Kent School, which prompted (American) speculation as to the sadism of the staff and the sodomy of their schoolboys; it is gratifying that the mores of our private colleges are so well known overseas. (Lest we be sued for libel it should be said that we have no evidence of anything at this particular place, one of whose teachers appeared mysteriously at the circle, though not seen on the trail). Mind you, Tosser and Made Marion separately accused me of not being on the trail; I had to call in the testimony of reputable runners to re-assure them.
All present, SH3 or not, were given a free T-shirt to wear at other hashes' hashes, so as to advertise our January event. Well, you can do better than that; wear them in the street or the office (tight ties cause you to go blind, official). The GM is in fact officially going blind, and brought out his new glasses to prove it. Also to offer a pint to anyone who sees him with alcohol at any hash event or do, at least for the next 6 months.
The RA had a superb list of sinners, but no beer to punish them with; in the end they got wine from a carton.
2LO now closing down.... You will hear no more from me till 31st August; your weekly sheet will revert to Tequil'Over, its rightful lord.
A closing word of thanks to Country Bumpkin and to Tako Belle for a great Sunday morning, and to all the lunatics, the lovers and the poets who made such a fine Midsummer Night's Dream.
ON ON FRB
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